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Rome Reporters Walter Galling and Leonora Dodsworth find that the strong dollar hasn't changed their lives. Says Galling: "There's a little thing here called inflation." Munich Reporter Franz Spelman recalls the sad days of the wilting dollar. "Just eight years ago," he says, "some Germans, remembering the CARE packages that Americans sent after World War II, began giving the families of needy U.S. servicemen toys, clothing and furniture...
Rome Reporters Walter Galling and Leonora Dodsworth find that the strong dollar hasn't changed their lives. Says Galling: "There's a little thing here called inflation." Munich Reporter Franz Spelman recalls the sad days of the wilting dollar. "Just eight years ago," he says, "some Germans, remembering the CARE packages that Americans sent after World War II, began giving the families of needy U.S. servicemen toys, clothing and furniture...
...Paris, $100 in New York City; a bottle of Dom Perignon 1976 is $23 in Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people into shops, and they become a little bit crazy. They just...
...Americans, inevitably, tell sad tales of money running out, no matter what the rate of exchange. Stephanie Marcus, 20, of Palo Alto, Calif., was sitting glumly in the waiting room of the Munich railroad station not long ago, pondering the fact that she had a plane ticket home from London but no money to get there from Munich. "I had hoped to get a job of some kind in Italy, but I hadn't set up anything beforehand," she said ruefully. "Then somebody picked my pocket in Rome, and the problem got serious." (Yes, she is safely back...
...mustard gas had severely injured the Iranians taken to Western Europe. Doctors treating the men reported burns and blisters of the skin, lung lesions that inhibit breathing, and chemical traces of the gas in body fluids. Said Burn Specialist Max von Karlmann of the Isar Right- Bank Clinic in Munich: "The clinical picture shows clear evidence of injury inflicted by mustard...